How ready is the web for agents?

127,444 sites scanned·Average rank: 43·6% rank B or above

01 / Distribution

How scores and grades are distributed across the web

The ecosystem average sits at 43 out of 100; half of all sites score below 42, half above. On the letter ladder, Grade D alone holds 37% of all sites - the curve is narrow and concentrated. 59% sit at D or F, a long bottom tail; only 0.514% reach A or above.

Score distribution

Smoothed density across 0 to 100 · lines mark median and peak

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Median 42

Peak 42.92

Grades

Sites per band, best to worst

02 / Trend

How the web is getting more agent ready over time

The ecosystem average is drifting up by 38 points. New protocols and wider adoption are pushing the curve higher; fresh long-tail scans moderate the pace.

Ecosystem average

Up 38 pts from first to latest scan

03 / Layers

Which layers are sites strong on, and where do they fall short

Every scan rolls up into four layers. Access leads at 44%; Payments trails at 5% - a 39-point spread. Only 0 of 5 layers clear the halfway mark: agent-readiness today is uneven, not whole. The cheap layers (metadata, discovery) run ahead while the layers that need real engineering (auth, integration) lag behind.

Layer balance

Average fill (0 to 100%)

04 / Categories

Which industries are the most agent-ready

Averaging every scan in a segment ranks industries by agent readiness, and the gap is wide. Commerce Tools leads at 62 - the segments at the top cluster around high-stakes, technical workflows (infrastructure, CRM, auth) where being legible and actionable to agents is fast becoming table stakes. At the other end, Climate & Energy trails at 30, a 32-point spread across the 27 categories we track: the segments at the bottom still feel little external push to open up for agents.

Where each category is strong, and where it falls short

Each industry has its own shape across the stack. Travel & Hospitality leads on Discovery; Commerce Tools leads on Access; Agent Tools leads on Usability. The heatmap shows how grades mix within each segment; the layer profile shows which layer is carrying the segment and which is holding it back.

Category × grade

How grades mix within each segment (each row sums to companies in that category)

A+

Community

439

6049

39087

41831

24166

Payments & Fintech

208

186

175

Healthcare

107

190

294

Developer Tools

199

131

Infrastructure

120

Marketing

111

107

AI & ML

Hardware & Robotics

113

E-commerce

Data & Analytics

Productivity

Communication & Support

Real Estate & Construction

Education

Legal & Compliance

Logistics & Supply Chain

Agent Tools

Gaming & Media

Security

Climate & Energy

Consumer

HR & Recruiting

Identity & Auth

News & Intelligence

CRM

Commerce Tools

Travel & Hospitality

Layer profile by category

Average fill (%) per layer within each segment

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Disc.

Pay

06 / Adoption

Which protocols and checks sites are actually adopting

A handful of protocols dominate; most are still rare. Each bar is the share of scanned sites that fully pass that check - llms.txt exists leads at 43%; at the other end, MPP payment protocol sits at just 0.046%.

Protocol adoption

Share of scanned sites that fully pass each check

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07 / Positioning

Where companies land on discoverability vs. actionability

The quadrant plots every curated company on two axes: how easy it is for agents to find and understand the site (X), and how far it lets agents actually act - auth, integration, and in-agent UX (Y). Agent Native sites lead on both; the other three quadrants show where the gap is.

Agent Readiness Quadrant

All tagged companies - Discovery + Identity (X) vs Auth & Access + Agent Integration + UX (Y)

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Agent Native - discoverable + capable

Quiet Champions - capable + undiscovered

Storefront - discoverable + underbuilt

Off the Map - invisible + underbuilt

Agent Readiness Quadrant summary
Quadrant	Domains
Agent Native (high discovery+identity, high auth+integration+ux)	23
Quiet Champions (low discovery+identity, high auth+integration+ux)	2
Storefront (high discovery+identity, low auth+integration+ux)	199
Off the Map (low discovery+identity, low auth+integration+ux)	462

08 / Market & Leaders

Who is doing this best, and who isn't

Of the 685 companies we curate across 16 categories, the top 10 are already shipping the fundamentals - clean discovery, an MCP endpoint, structured product data, working auth. The bottom 10 mostly predate these protocols and haven't been revisited.